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Friday, February 28, 2014

The KISS project~Keep it simple sunshine! Day one ♥

Last weekend I taught my Paint Mojo workshop here in our little village by the sea.

In an oversight I planned the workshop on the same weekend as a massive annual world class triathlon.

On this weekend each year thousands of super fit looking people flood the area, roads are blocked and it takes forever to get from Point A to Point B.

My hugest apologies to my students who battled the detours and fervent traffic volunteers to get to class, some of you taking an hour to drive what would normally take 15 minutes or less!

We certainly needed those deep breaths we took in circle time and then, of course laughter is always the great diffuser of stress and we had plenty of that over the weekend!

On the way to class on Sunday my friend Neelam, who stayed with us for the weekend, told me of a fictitious word her father would use to describe such a convoluted journey...."You're taking the ingara vingara route" he would say...

Now I have a certain penchant for speaking in accents so this expression (in my best Indian accent) became my new favourite phrase this week......

as I rolled these fun words across my tongue I got to thinking about all the ways I take the ingara vingara route in my life and how much this leads to a sense of overwhelm, complicating things in a way that is really not necessary...

Like this blog, and how every time I go to write a new post I feel the need to encompass this whole Universe and the one next door too, to write of profound things accompanied by a myriad of pics...so much so that it all becomes too much and I end up avoiding the task for weeks at a time!

So here's the deal.....

For the month of March and maybe beyond

I am launching the KISS project

Keep it Simple Sunshine...

thats right...

no more ingara vingara

just keep it simple

Feel free to join me with your own daily post of something short and sweet

Taking visiting NZ/Swedish friends to find their first kangaroos.

Max thinks this is the perfect sized playmate,

while Meya tells one, matter of factly, "we ate one of you last night"

Yep..tried BBQ kangaroo for the first time and it was pretty good...

playing with fun apps and taking lots of pics around our casa.....also playing with the idea that my first online course will be called "mi casa su casa" and everyone will be invited to come into our home and be inspired to create beautiful things with me :)

seeing out the last of the Summer days with lots of sweet shared memories...

and there's Simon cooking up the kangaroo steaks on the back deck...sorry Skippy!!

7 comments:

My friend Inga and I also took the ingara vingara route, going to a colour of woman painting workshop the 15th!! It was a delïghtful encounter with our creative muses, we're' still working on our pieces.Love your KISS invitation

Love your post and your project! We are now home and it feels great to have family and old friend all around us! Thank you for our fantastic stay in your Casa Tracy! We had a fabulous time in Jervis bay! Love Jenny

Thank you so much everyone for all of your wonderful comments and support over these past few weeks and indeed throughout 2015! I a...

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. ~Rumi

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sweet words from students :)

Dear Tracy,

I have had such an amazing response to your workshop. It has gone far beyond the painting of a picture. You have an incredible , supportive and intuitive energy that is contagious. Teaching others about freeing yourself up, from the ever present ‘critical mind’, is life changing. I am so inspired by your wonderful workshop. I have been applying simple messages from the day into my everyday life, and the roller coaster of life is so much richer and exciting with the knowledge of letting go and trusting in the process. This wonderful painting (that I have hung above my computer) reminds me every day that life always has a way of working out for the better if we just let go.....

Your way of teaching is subtle, yet powerful, and you guide others to discover for themselves important insights. I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to be a part of this very special day

~Vanessa

Thanks again Tracy for such a wonderful, colourful, transformative, powerful, peaceful weekend.....I really see how much I get caught in detail and perfection and beautifying and how this has it's value but as you pointed out to me, if I'm feeling like I'm tensing and tightening up with this then move the energy, shift and also be bold to make big changes if things aren't working! That's a big one. But this is life, nothing ever stays completely the same does it!SO yes thanks SO very much for your colourful, loving, gentle yet powerful and generous sharing on the weekend. Looking forward to journeying more with you creatively and in friendship.~Katie